String to Valid GET format

[Drakla]

Hiya all, Worzel's got his thick head on today, and basically I've written a page that lists all the tables within an .xls and makes hrefs to them like:

for( $c=0; $c<count($tables); $c++)
{	//Gwah!  I have to prepare the string for GETting
    echo "<a href=\"$thisfile?filename=$filename&table=$tName\">";
    echo "$tables[$c]</a><br>";
}

But now I've hit a snag with a table called 'UK & ROI$' - I know you've already seen the problem, Bargain Hunters, it's that ampersand and the spaces

Is there a php command to parse it up for me, or is it time to write a little routine?

Cheers all.

[khaldryck]

htmlentities() should help you in this.
or url_encode().

check out the php manual about this.

[Drakla]

Oh you utter star! urlencode() it is. I've got the chm version of the PHP manual which is invaluable because of the function reference, but I just couldn't find it, and php being what it is (fantastic) I knew this sort of thing was in there.

You've saved me good.